makeOrgPackageFromNCBI: Ensembl site unresponsive, trying useast mirror

[lshep]

The makeOrgPackageFromNCBI takes long time to run its first run when building the database. I did however run into another issue where I repeatedly got Ensembl site unresponsive, trying useast mirror; this happened after 2.5 hours of already running and building a database -- is there a more secure or updated entry point for this step based on biomart/mike smith previous comments?

Please be patient while we work out which organisms can be annotated
  with ensembl IDs.
Ensembl site unresponsive, trying uswest mirror
Ensembl site unresponsive, trying uswest mirror
Ensembl site unresponsive, trying useast mirror
Ensembl site unresponsive, trying useast mirror
Ensembl site unresponsive, trying useast mirror

[lshep]

Nevermind -- I was worried that it wouldn't try another mirror but it looks like eventually it does and complete --

processing gene_info: description
processing alias data
processing refseq data
processing accession data
processing GO data
Please be patient while we work out which organisms can be annotated
  with ensembl IDs.
Ensembl site unresponsive, trying uswest mirror
Ensembl site unresponsive, trying uswest mirror
Ensembl site unresponsive, trying useast mirror
Ensembl site unresponsive, trying useast mirror
Ensembl site unresponsive, trying useast mirror
Ensembl site unresponsive, trying useast mirror
Ensembl site unresponsive, trying useast mirror
Ensembl site unresponsive, trying useast mirror
Ensembl site unresponsive, trying useast mirror
Ensembl site unresponsive, trying asia mirror
processing unigene data
making the OrgDb package ...
Populating genes table: